Bitter APT Group Targets Chinese Energy Sector with New phishing Campaign

Threat Level

Actor Report

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Summary

A new cyber espionage campaign targeting the energy sector in China by the South Asian threat group Bitter APT. The campaign involves the use of social engineering tactics through phishing emails that contain malicious payloads in the form of Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM) files and Excel files with Equation Editor exploits.

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